Ralph Hancock

Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a producer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run his own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As a producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors and designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he played a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale land, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This updated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by the Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen photographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.

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In 1805 the young Lord Byron, a new undergraduate at Cambridge University, was annoyed to find that he was not allowed to keep a dog in his rooms. So he bought a bear instead. And that might have been the end of it – except that Daisy was no ordinary bear. Three years later, thanks entirely to her unsparing efforts, the idle and dissolute young poet left Cambridge with a Master of Arts degree under his belt, and Daisy set out on a career as a scholar, entertainer, navigator and statesbear. As Napoleon’s armies swept over Europe, it was a time when history was being made. She fought beside the future Duke of Wellington, gave wise advice to the Tsar of Russia and Sir Stamford Raffles, unfortunately rescued John Bellingham who was later to shoot the British Prime Minister, and in company with an eccentric Russian aristocrat took a ship through the icy Northeast Passage for the first time. This is her diary, written over seven momentous years that shaped the modern world.

""Fabulous Boulevard: The Story Of Wilshire Boulevard"" by Ralph Hancock is a comprehensive and engaging account of the history and development of one of Los Angeles' most iconic streets. The book takes readers on a journey through time, tracing the evolution of Wilshire Boulevard from its early days as a dirt road to its current status as a bustling thoroughfare lined with high-rise buildings, luxury hotels, and world-class museums. Hancock's meticulously researched and expertly written narrative is filled with fascinating anecdotes and insights into the people, events, and cultural trends that have shaped Wilshire Boulevard over the years. He explores the street's role in the growth and development of Los Angeles as a major metropolis, and delves into the stories of the visionaries, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders who played a key role in its transformation. Along the way, readers will encounter a colorful cast of characters, from Hollywood celebrities and socialites to architects and urban planners, who have left their mark on Wilshire Boulevard. They'll learn about the construction of iconic landmarks like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and discover the fascinating stories behind lesser-known sites like the Ambassador Hotel and the Miracle Mile. With its insightful commentary, rich historical detail, and stunning photographs, ""Fabulous Boulevard: The Story Of Wilshire Boulevard"" is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and culture of Los Angeles, as well as anyone who has ever been captivated by the glamour and allure of this legendary street. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Can we run our lives and govern our societies by reason? The question provoked Socrates to redirect philosophic inquiry in a political direction, and it has remained fundamental to Western thought. Martin Heidegger explored this problem in his profound critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, and Leo Strauss responded to Heidegger with an attempt to recover the classical idea of the rule of reason. In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.